The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta Update, May 16th 2025

We have just published a minor update for The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta. It includes many changes and bugfixes listed below. We also sent out a MASSIVE Playtest Access wave, courtesy of Paweł's generosity, and not at all a bug with page refresh which caused us to release twice as many as we initially intended. We are calm.

[h3]The Riftbreaker Closed Co-Op Beta Update, May 15th 2025[/h3]
[h2]Changes:[/h2]

• Gathering tools now include loot drones as a base parameter.
  
• Reworked the main menu flow and added a new “What’s New” section.
  
• Added password and text input popup templates with support messages.
  
• Added “Follow Us” toast to the main menu.
  
• Multiplayer saves are now filtered correctly to avoid mixing with single-player files.
  
• Added detailed warnings for version/content mismatches when joining games.
  
• Server now handles kick/ban events more reliably.
  
• Improved visual fidelity of alien comet decals and boss tornado skills.
  

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]

• Fixed issues with flickering shadows.
  
• Temporarily disabled raytracing to filter out crash reports caused by raytracing issues.
  
• Fixed prediction bugs and deadlocks in burst-fire weapons.
  
• Fixed melee weapon stuns not triggering properly on clients.
  
• Added logic to prevent simultaneous use of the detector and melee weapons.
  
• Fixed softlocks and improved safety logic in various weapon systems.
  
• Improved handling of controller input changes.
  
• Fixed rare bugs in player migration when loading saves from another account.
  
• Cleaned up empty tooltips and removed outdated GUI shortcuts.
  
• Refined gamepad navigation across the survival screen and menus.
  
• Fixed incorrect gamepad shortcut behavior in the equipment screen.
  
• Fixed screen alignment and selection node issues.
  
• Fixed portal activation issues in multiplayer games.
  
• Improved entity replication logic and reduced desync potential.
  
• Added safeguards for network entity creation and removal during packet loss.
  
• Marked sensitive multiplayer data as non-persistent.
  
• Improved delta acknowledgement timing for smoother server operation.
  
• Fixed jittering of dead units in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed mech spectator camera orientation.
  
• Fixed creature health scaling based on player count and difficulty level.
  
• Added internal helper for unexpected async results.
  
• Fixed rare crash in the research tree if a node was missing.
  
• Multiple backend tweaks, bugfixes, and QoL cleanups.
  

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